abstract background: nurses as the major group of health service providers need to have a satisfactory quality of work life in order to give desirable care to the patients. workplace violence is one of the most important factors that cause decline in the quality of work life. this study aimed to determine the quality of work life of nurses in selected hospitals of isfahan university of medical ...

Background: Violence in the workplace is one of most critical risk factors worldwide. Nurses are continuously exposed to violence their workplace, primarily because having contact with patients and families. Objectives: The present study aimed investigate against nurses Razi educational remedial center Rasht. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, we recruited 112 working Rasht's by convenience s...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to explore the characteristics of workplace violence that Chinese nurses at tertiary and county-level hospitals encountered in the 12 months from December 2014 to January 2016, to identify and analyse risk factors for workplace violence, and to establish the basis for future preventive strategies. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING A tota...

Workplace violence in Chinese township hospitals is a major public health problem. We identified the risk factors of healthcare workers' worry about experiencing workplace violence in 90 Chinese township hospitals and determined specific measures for differing stages of violence (based on crisis management theory). Participants were 440 general practitioners and 398 general nurses from Heilongj...

AIM This quality improvement project aims to reduce nurse-to-nurse lateral violence and create a more respectful workplace culture through a series of workshops. BACKGROUND Lateral violence is common and pervasive in nursing, with detrimental physical, psychological and organizational consequences. METHODS This project describes the organization-wide pre- and post-intervention survey of reg...

The findings of a study conducted on violence against women by the staff at the SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence in Belgrade, Serbia, is reported in this paper. For each call reporting an incident of violence, a data form was completed with the details of the call. Findings revealed that almost all callers were victims of violence from family members or intimate partners...

This article investigates the relation between history of intrafamilial violence and self-regulatory capacity, cognitive processing, and mental health adjustment in incarcerated adolescents. Adolescents were incarcerated at the time of the study for various violent offenses, ranging from persistent delinquency to sexual assault (n = 115). A model is proposed that posits that self-regulation, co...

Acts of violence include bullying, verbal threats, physical assault, domestic abuse, the use of objects or weapons to harm another, and gunfire. Premature death, disability, and academic failure occur due to the violent activity that surrounds many American youth. Risk factors that contribute to youth violence include a history of being abused or abusing others, school truancy, poor time use, e...

In this study, the relationship between psychopathy, according to the Dutch language version of Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), and various types of disruptive behavior during inpatient forensic psychiatric treatment is investigated. Ninety-two male participants were administered the PCL-R following admission to an inpatient forensic hospital. From daily hospital information bulle...

BACKGROUND The Domestic Violence Prevention Act came into effect in Japan in 2001, but covers only marriage partner violence and post-divorce partner violence, and does not recognize intimate partner violence (IPV). The present study was performed to determine the experience of harassment, both toward and from an intimate partner, and recognition of harassment as IPV among Japanese university s...